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Old 01-28-2011, 10:45 AM   #138
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Originally Posted by Patricia29 View Post
I just finished 'Fall of Giants' by Ken Follett, in every instance in the ebook, the country house in Wales is referred to as T? Gwyn. I believe it should be Ty Gwyn.
This was a major irritation, since it appears countless times throughout the book and there is no excuse for it!
There is actually a sensible reason for that. The word would almost certainly have been "Ty" where the "y" had a circumflex accent. This is a Unicode character which is absent from many fonts. The "?" is the Sony's way of saying "this is a character which isn't present in my font".
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